2 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 168.2 hrs on record (166.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jan 30, 2023 @ 4:22pm
Updated: Jan 30, 2023 @ 4:36pm

Phew... done. Finally. Note that I've only played one class, the Consular -- so, I don't know whether the other stories are any better. I'm also only looking at the class story part of the game; I don't care about multiplayer and cash-stuff.

The writing is just awful. They keep repeating the same stuff over and over and over again, and that's not even about that stupid Empire war which is the main ever-repeating "story" in almost every place you go. Locations are boring and repetitive.

And heck, they aren't even using that to grow character relations. Like I talk 3 lines of dialogue to some Jedi bureaucrat I've never met before, and next I know they are like long-time masters to me?

Gameplay isn't any better. There's a strong focus on the cash shop; at some point I tried a difficult (optional) mission, somehow beat the first boss, and got an item that I wasn't allowed to use without buying "authorization" first. I hit the level cap during the character story, and at the end I used the same items forever (not even the final set I got was any different) because everything they gave me was at much lower level.

Moving around is tedious; they have huge locations just so you have to walk for minutes to get anywhere. The story takes you to different planets which don't fell every different, give you tons of samey rubbish quests across lots of samey locations. Maps are labyrinths on most worlds, with a crappy/useless map -- because in Star Wars, nobody has invented flying yet, and I guess Google Maps isn't an option either. In some places. I spent more time trying to find a way to the quest location, than actually doing the quest then...

The companions are annoying, especially since the first one I got was a dumb lizard who'd be more suited for the dark side, and uses the stupid "alien voice"-scheme instead of real voice acting. They do that a lot, which makes listening to these aliens a pain.

Even the display isn't particularly good. Depending on the world you're on, things may be difficult to read because they don't constrast well with the landscape. And in one boss fight (actually, the one I mentioned above), I died because I couldn't find the tiny mouse pointer on the screen in time to click on the healing thing...

And how old is this game? Never mind, they still have quests that can bug out...

On the positive side, you can still play it for free. Is it worth it? Not even that.
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